Pre-Socratic Definition

Pre-Socratic Sentence Examples

• The pre-Socratic philosophy took its stand on natural science, to the exclusion of ethics and religion.

• Other names of the pre-Socratic and Socratic times are mentioned by Xenophon, Plato and Aristotle.

• In the case of Pythagoras, conspicuous among pre-Socratic philosophers as the founder not merely of a school, but of a sect or order bound by a common rule of life, there is a closer connexion between moral and metaphysical speculation.

• It is only when we come to Democritus, a contemporary of Socrates, the last of the original thinkers whom we distinguish as pre-Socratic, that we find anything which we can call an ethical system.

• The pre-Socratic thinkers were all primarily devoted to ontological research; but by the middle of the 5th century B.C. the conflict of their dogmatic systems had led some of the keenest minds to doubt the possibility of penetrating the secret of the physical universe.